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We Need To Talk About Kevin

We Need To Talk About Kevin is the kind of film you won't watch more than once — unless you're…

13 years ago

Why Brad Pitt Should Not Win An Oscar

First, let me say, I have nothing against Brad Pitt personally. He's a sexy actor — one of the sexiest.…

13 years ago

The Iron Lady

It's surprising how much of The Iron Lady is taken up by scenes of an old, ailing Margaret Thatcher —…

13 years ago

Work It

"Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots 'cause it's OK to be a boy.…

13 years ago

The Darkest Hour 3D

The darkest hour, indeed: the one spent calculating all the things you could have purchased with the exorbitant $17 you…

13 years ago

For Your Consideration: How To Improve The Best Picture Race

With the announcement Tuesday of the Producers Guild's picks for the top ten best films of the year — as…

13 years ago

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is about as good as it can be. Based on the popular…

13 years ago

Carnage

In horror movies, characters often find themselves impossibly stuck. They run upstairs and hide in the closet, or under the…

13 years ago

Sleeping Beauty

Fairy tales, ever a go-to source for cinematic revision, have claimed an even larger share of the spotlight recently. Network…

13 years ago

My Week With Marilyn

Michelle Williams is a very smart actress. Her Marilyn Monroe is beautiful, buxom, radiant, childish, cunning — all things the…

13 years ago

Immortals

If you've seen director Tarsem Singh's first two feature films — The Cell (2000) and The Fall (2006) — then…

13 years ago

Like Crazy

Think of it as the Recession's Romeo & Juliet. Instead of fair Verona, we've got the sparsely decorated walls of…

13 years ago

The Skin I Live In

"It's important not to forget that films are made to entertain. That's the key," Pedro Almodovar said in 1999 interview,…

13 years ago

Limelight

Now a remodeled mini-mall on the corner of Sixth Avenue and 20th Street, The Limelight used to be one of…

13 years ago

Puncture

Puncture is largely typical of the David vs. Goliath corporate legal battle - a Netflix mini-genre that, because of its…

13 years ago

Contagion

By the time you read this, the idea of what Contagion is will have already infiltrated your brain — that…

13 years ago

The Debt

Actors are a lot like spies, particularly in the sense that they are professionals paid to maintain a certain illusion.…

13 years ago

Our Idiot Brother

Damn that Paul Rudd. Is anyone more believable as a beloved relative? What began in 1995's Clueless as the dorky-but-loving…

13 years ago

Fright Night

Next-door neighbors, as everyone knows, are capable of unspeakable horrors. There's no use in going into the nosy or noisy,…

13 years ago